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October 19, 2024 • 10:00 am

Free
2024 oaktober

Join us for a celebration of the Oak in Marquand Park in Princeton! Free oak saplings, cookies and cider, oak scavenger hunt. Make seed bombs for our meadow planting! Rain date Sunday, October 20th. Parking: Lovers Lane parking lot. Overflow parking on Mercer Street between Hibben Road and Springdale Road. Additional parking on Olden Lane.

About Marquand Park: Marquand Park and Arboretum is a 17-acre historic preserve of trees and woodlands that offers a variety of recreational and educational experiences in the center of Princeton. Originally the landscaped garden of a 19th-century estate, the park has a rich collection of native and exotic trees reflecting the interest and tastes of its previous owners and its current beneficiaries. Some trees in the park are the largest of their kind in New Jersey.

Marquand Park includes in its collection over 140 different tree specimens, among them some rare evergreens and a Dawn Redwood, known only as a fossil until 1944 when it was discovered growing in China. In the wooded area are huge specimens of native trees such as beech, hickory, and black, white and red oaks.  The park’s tree planting program ensures the continuous acquisition of new trees.

About the Marquand Park Foundation: The Marquand Park Foundation, established in 1954, supports planting and special maintenance programs to preserve the park as an arboretum for the public to enjoy. To that end, the Foundation has purchased or been given more than 100 species of trees and shrubs over the years. In addition, the Foundation maintains close relationships with the municipality of Princeton, which owns the park, to ensure proper routine maintenance and raise awareness, if special attention is needed, to the condition of trees and shrubs.

The Foundation is an independent nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization and receives donations from the public to support its efforts.

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Date:
October 19, 2024
Time:
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Cost:
Free
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Website:
https://www.marquandpark.org/

Venue

Marquand Park Children’s Arboretum
68 Lovers Ln
Princeton, NJ 08540 United States
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